What are the differences between activity and fragment?

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Those are two completely different things:

An Activity is an application component that provides a screen, with which users can interact in order to do something. More details:
https://developer.android.com/guide/components/activities/intro-activities

Whereas a Fragment represents a behavior or a portion of user interface in an Activity.
https://developer.android.com/guide/fragments

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